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forfeitures and amerciaments due to the said lords as is aforesaid, 

 and also that the said Officers shall or may distrain for or levy the 

 other half of the said penalties and forfeitures, which shall be 

 forfeited for the breach of any Article contained in this Composition 

 or Agreement, or of any Orders or Bye-Laws, that shall be made 

 as aforesaid, to be employed as is aforesaid. And it is further 

 agreed, as aforesaid, that as well the said Officers as also the said 

 Bailiffs of the said Lords, for their portion, shall and may distrain 

 the beasts or goods of him that doth refuse or delay to pay the 

 same amerciaments or pains forfeited by him, wheresoever they be 

 found in Cottenham aforesaid, so they be distrained for within one 

 year after they be forfeited, and not otherwise, and impound the 

 same distress or distresses until the money be paid for which they 

 were distrained and sell the same distress if the money be not paid 

 within five days after such distress impounded. And that the said 

 Officers shall make a true and just account of their receipt of all 

 and every the penalties, forfeitures and amerciaments that they 

 shall so receive or levy, unto the Order-makers, or the greater 

 number of them, at the time, place and day of their next meeting 

 for making of Orders, and that the said Officers shall yearly within 

 eight and twenty days, next after their accounts to the said Order- 

 makers made and determined, pay all such sums of money as shall 

 be then remaining in their hands, that is to say, so much as is due 

 to the inhabitants shall be paid by them to the Town Officers, 

 newly chosen, for the next year following, upon pain to forfeit 

 double so much money in the name of a penalty, as shall then 

 remain in their hands unpaid, the last mentioned penalty to be 

 employed to bear the common charges of the said inhabitants. 



ARTICLE XXV 



No Laws to Also it is agreed, as aforesaid, by and between the said parties 



any the" * * nese presents, and every of them, for them their heirs and 



Lord's assigns, do grant and agree to and with either of them their heirs 



and assigns, that neither the said William Hinde, nor any of his 



